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14 examples that can help you update your social media community guidelines

Communications Conversations

And, after the year we all just had, if you haven’t already, now is the perfect time to revisit your social media community guidelines. These guidelines have taken on increasing importance over the last 15 months for a few big reasons: I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but the country is fairly divided at the moment.

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Effectively Engage and Build Your Community Through Podcasting

Deirdre Breakenridge

It’s a crowded field to be sure, but it also offers an excellent, and even underused, opportunity for businesses to increase engagement with its community. Think of your community when podcasting instead of focusing solely on promotion. This affords businesses the opportunity to interact with its community in real-time.

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6 Guidelines for Social Media Tragedy Response

Shift Communications

Once we’ve established there’s no threat or harm to our immediate community, we can consider more mundane issues. Of all the guidelines and factors in this post, this is the only hard-and-fast rule: never market sorrow. If an incident occurs in our hometown, obviously be sure our employees, loved ones, etc. are safe and accounted for.

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The #PRStudChat Community Discusses Financial Services & Social Media on April 19th

Deirdre Breakenridge

Understanding your business purpose and approach on social media is imperative and financial services companies are investing in their infrastructure, guidelines, and engagement best practices. Jenn and the #PRStudChat community will be answering and discussing the following: How is social media transforming the financial services industry?

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Community Management: Quit Herding Cats

Cision

If media relations is an arm of public relations, community management is another. A community grows your reach and influence. If those people like you and what you have to say, the community and loyalty grows. If those people like you and what you have to say, the community and loyalty grows. Where is it found?

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Inside the Campaign: Rocking Engagement with the IT Community

Shift Communications

He saw the fun of it and the opportunity to do something fresh and different, so we broke the mold in a careful way, because Citrix has very particular brand guidelines and positioning. The second our client saw the bold idea, he locked on. And because we saw that using rap to sell stuff was potentially dangerous territory.

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Become the Pied Piper of Community Building

Waxing UnLyrical

Communities have been around for centuries, however online communities have only been around for a few decades. According to Computerworld the first “online community” came about in 1973 when Talkomatic for the PLATO time-sharing system released a text-based group chat. Let’s get right to it, how to build your brand’s community.